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Kraemer’s ebullient all-Handel program warms a December evening in Chicago

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Reviewed at Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago on 1 December 2016
Handel, Coronation Anthem no. 1: Zadok the priest, HWV 258
Handel, Other (Concerto grosso in B flat major)
Handel, Laudate pueri dominum in D major, HWV 237
Handel, Silete venti, HWV 242
Handel, Royal Fireworks Music, HWV 351
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Kraemer, Conductor
Amanda Forsythe, Soprano
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, Choirmaster / chorus director
Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening
****1
Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago
*****
Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago
****1
Daniela Candillari makes her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut
****1
Polished Ravel x 2 from Alice Sara Ott with the Chicago Symphony
****1
Ravinia Festival opens with bombastic Gershwin, emotional Tchaikovsky
***11
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